# Chef Workstation 20.10.168 Released!

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-10-168-released/17866>\
**Category:** Chef Release Announcements\
**Created:** [October 21, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/chef-workstation-20-10-168-released/17866 "2020-10-21T20:56:42Z")\
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We are delighted to announce the availability of version 20.10.168 of Chef Workstation.

## Security Updates

Ruby has been updated to 2.7.2, which includes a fix for [CVE-2020-25613](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-25613).

## Improvements

Install times on Windows systems are now 2.5x faster.

### Chef Workstation Powershell Shortcut

We removed the administrator requirement from the PowerShell shortcut added to the Desktop on install. Users who desire this existing functionality should right-click and `Run as administrator` on this shortcut.

### Chef Infra Client

Chef Infra Client has been updated from 16.5.77 to 16.6.14. This release adds support for Microsoft's `pwsh` (commonly known as PowerShell Core) in addition to its previous support for `PowerShell`. The [powershell\_script](https://docs.chef.io/resources/powershell_script/) resource includes a new `interpreter` property that accepts either `powershell` or `pwsh`, the `powershell_out` and `powershell_exec` custom resource helpers have been updated with a new argument that accepts either `:pwsh` or `:powershell`, and the `powershell_exec` helper now supports the 32-bit version of Windows.

This release also improves the Target Mode feature by converting the majority of Ohai plugins to run remotely, adds a new [chef\_client\_config](https://docs.chef.io/resources/chef_client_config/) resource, and fixes various bugs.

### Cookstyle

Cookstyle has been updated from 6.19.5 to 6.21.1. This release includes an updated RuboCop engine, improves scan times, fixes various bugs, and adds 3 new cops:

#### Lint/RedundantSafeNavigation

The `Lint/RedundantSafeNavigation` cop detects redundant save navigation operators in order to simplify code. For example `attrs&.respond_to?(:[])` can be simplified to just `attrs.respond_to?(:[])` because `respond_to?` will not error even if `attrs` is not defined.

#### ChefCorrectness/OctalModeAsString

The `ChefCorrectness/OctalModeAsString` cop detects mode properties that incorrectly use a string to represent an octal value. We highly recommend using strings that contain a base 10 mode value, but even if you want to use octal values, they can't be passed as strings.

#### ChefDeprecations/UseYamlDump

The `ChefDeprecations/UseYamlDump` cop detects cookbooks that use the .to\_yaml method. Chef Infra Client 16.5 introduced performance enhancements to Ruby library loading and due to the underlying implementation of Ruby's `.to_yaml` method, it does not automatically load the YAML library. We recommend using `YAML.dump()` instead, which is functionally equivalent, and also properly loads the YAML library.

### Kitchen EC2

The `kitchen-ec2` gem has been updated from 3.7.2 to 3.8.0. This release allows multiple IP addresses to be specified when creating a security group and fixes a bug when creating spot instances.

### Kitchen Dokken

The `kitchen-dokken` gem has been updated from 2.11.0 to 2.11.1 This release improves how kitchen-dokken determines if containers are available for connections.

### knife-ec2

The `knife-ec2` plugin has been updated from 2.0.4 to 2.0.6. This release fixes an error that would occur when using the `--server-connect-attribute private_ip_address` flag.

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## Get the Build

If you are running the Chef Workstation toolbar application you can download this version from the menu after the app next update check. You can also download binaries directly from [downloads.chef.io](https://downloads.chef.io/chef-workstation/20.10.168).

As always, we welcome your feedback and invite you to contact us directly or share your [email](mailto:workstation@chef.io). Thanks for using Chef Workstation!